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As you might have noticed, there hasn’t been anything going on here in a while. Basically: I’ve been really busy. I’ve been live on Germany’s second most-watched news show talking about the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal and gave a talk about infosec in front of a number of C-level executives of the biggest companies of Hanover and the surrounding area, including leading people from the interior ministry and Verfassungsschutz of the State of Lower Saxony.

The other day, I had an interesting Twitter discussion with my friend Char. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, WhatsApp founder Brian Acton had jumped on the #DeleteFacebook bandwagon. To my eyes, this was an extremely hypocritical move. The man reportedly made billions from selling his app to Facebook. To now suddenly tell people, from a position of extreme wealth, to never use their services again is something that you just don’t do.